Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's World War II snooperscopes, the image-converter is essentially a booster for light. In a vacuum tube, photons of light strike a cesium-antimony photocathode, which in turn gives off high-speed electrons. The electrons are accelerated through an electric field, hit a sensitive "retina" screen or a photographic plate, and etch out a crisp picture. Used in celestial photography, the image-converter proved impractical. Reason: water molecules in the photographic emulsion reacted with the cesium, destroyed the unshielded photocathode...
...expire next March, the volunteers would be used only to staff the Defense Ministry and military missions to SHAPE, to maintain military equipment received under the U.S. aid programs, and to attend courses at allied training camps. Jaeger also wrote a separate bill setting up a selection board to screen all officers from colonel up, giving both parliament and President Theodor Heuss veto power over the board's membership...
Married. Betty Lawford, 44, stage and screen actress, famed as the luscious trollop who for a Broadway season languished in a foam bath in The Women; and Barry Buchanan, advertising and public relations executive; in Manhattan...
Married. Clark Gable, 54, durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...
...Citing the WOCs who administer 15 out of 25 industry divisions in his department's Business and Defense Services Administration, the Commerce Secretary in effect challenged the skeptical Congressmen to find a "single case ... of even the slightest impropriety." He argued that barring WOCs from policymaking posts would screen out the top men, for no top executive would make the sacrifice of entering Government service just to function as an exalted clerk...